Anecdote of Miao Wedding Customs
The Miao nationality has a long history. The aboriginal residents of the Nanyue nationality have a connection with it. After thousands of years, the Miao nationality has bred its cultural customs and wedding customs. Want to know what are the interesting wedding customs of the Miao nationality? Below, I will take stock of interesting facts about the wedding customs of the Miao nationality!
Different rooms on the wedding night
After a period of travel, if the two parties agree, they usually give tokens to each other or make an oath to get engaged in private. When the privately engaged men and women arrive at the agreed wedding date, the man invites several partners to the woman’s village to "youfang" and take the woman home by the way. According to custom, newlyweds cannot share the same room that night, and the bride must be accompanied by the man’s aunt for the night. The next day, the man asked the matchmaker to bring gifts to the woman's house to propose marriage. If the woman agrees, she accepts the gift and entertains the matchmaker. Subsequently, the woman prepares a gift equal to or slightly more than the man's gift to return to the man. The man learned that the woman was in favour of this marriage, so he hosted a banquet for relatives and friends who came to congratulate him.
After the wedding, the husband’s home
In the past, the Miao people in southeastern Guizhou had the custom of "following their husband's house" after a wedding. The bride returned to live in her natal house soon after she got married. Brides who belong to an arranged marriage by their parents return to live in their natal home on the day or the next day of the wedding ceremony. The period of staying in the natal family is generally six to seven years for underage early married women, and three to four years for adult women. During this period, only during busy farming and major festivals, or when the husband’s family is in a funeral, can they temporarily return to live in her husband’s house.
Miao Wedding Ceremonies such as receiving umbrellas, worshipping ancestors, eating acacia wine, picking happy water, and catching happy fish. The crowd of relatives should sing the songs of "Bar-Men Wine" and "Bull Horn Wine" outside the gate.
Freestyle marriage The bride can return to the groom's house to live after confession. Classical marriage The bride goes home to live after the wedding, and stays at the husband’s house for a few days only when there is a wedding or funeral at the husband’s house or during the busy farming season, which is called “bilateral residence”. When the bride went to her husband’s house for the second time, the brothers, aunts, and sister-in-law and others carried glutinous rice, a few fish, and a leg of pork. The husband’s family invited all the relatives to "eat a meal" and entertained the guests from house to house. . Streamers are also presented when sending guests off. After the bride lived for ten and a half days, the husband's family also prepared the same gift to send her back to the door and received the same courtesy. A few years later, the new wife officially settled in her husband's house. Before the "mould pot stove" ceremony, the new wife could only use one family pot stove. The marriage customs of the Miao nationality are quite different in different regions. Some Miao people in the Tianzhu area have the custom of singing accompaniment songs on the night before they get married; some Miao people in Rongjiang Bakai and Danzhai Pai Diao have cows as their betrothal; in Taijiang and Training, the bridegroom is in the bride’s home until the wedding is over. He doesn't show up in the day, working in the mountains during the day as usual, and staying overnight at relatives' homes at night.
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